Emma Rix

Housing and public law solicitor, mostly legal aid. Interested in housing policy and social justice. Also archaeology, classics and Lycian inscriptions.

[Morrison Spowart @MorrisonSpowart]

Sarah Steinhardt @DoughtyStHSW secured an excellent result for our client last week in a Housing Act appeal challenging her unsuitable temp accommodation; grounds and skeleton drafted by @zianabi. A review of the accommodation had been requested but no response received.

[Emma Rix @EmmaMayRix]

Raising money via the London legal walk for legal advice centres providing free legal advice in London - an excellent cause. Please consider donating if you can. London Legal Walk 2023 https://t.co/ywZK2J71s3

[Emma Rix @EmmaMayRix]

@Victoria_Spratt Certainly anything which makes landlords (or potential landlords) realise that what they are doing is running a business and that this should actually involve work and responsibilities rather than just harvesting rent would be good…

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

Suella Braverman keeps repeating that the Rwanda scheme etc is the “will of the British people”

If, like me, you’re British, & this is not your “will” let her know by retweeting this please.

We deserve to be heard

#RwandaNotInMyName

@SuellaBraverman

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

🚨 Housing wise, what do you want to see prioritised by parties at the next election.

*By ‘Social/Private homes’ I mean better regulation on quality, regulation, including regulation of rents and investment in building more social housing *

Please RT & vote it’ll help me🙏🏽

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@rix_harriet @CliveSSmith Haha, @rix_harriet! Still, one day…

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@paulpowlesland We stopped on the edge of Exmoor yesterday after church in Molland and saw, in a few minutes, a wheatear, a stonechat, two skylarks and a swallow, without really trying. So it’s not all bad…

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@CGResident242 @lambeth_council @LambethLabour @CGE1TRA @neileuesden Highlights the underlying unfairness of these arrangements, which leave people unable to control their own energy bills, worsened because these charges are not usually eligible charges for housing benefit/the housing element of UC but are considered to be rent arrears if unpaid.

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@CGResident242 @lambeth_council @LambethLabour @CGE1TRA @neileuesden Phoenix housing association’s heating charges are showing a similarly astronomical rise. Seems this might be a result of the ending of gov support to businesses for energy costs- which means tenants of housing associations will not get any of support intended for domestic users.

[CG Resident 242 @CGResident242]

Astounded by @lambeth_Council's outrageously increased 353% Heating & Hot Water service charges. What is the formula used to calculate these exaggerated charges? @LambethLabour @CGE1TRA #HeatNetwork #CostOfLivingCrisis #EnergyCrisis #EnergyBills #Lambeth #CottonGardensEstate

[Emma Rix @EmmaMayRix]

@lccmunicipal I walk or cycle past these almost every day of the week and am ashamed to say I’ve never realised notice them. Will definitely be looking out for them on Monday morning… Thank you for this fascinating thread!

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@nearlylegal @Lynn_Nothegger It would be a brave viewer who would suggest to that guy that they might not want to do a complete modernisation. He’s very firm about it.

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Earthquake disaster in Syria: Give what you can to help the White Helmets save lives https://t.co/W8w4HkEHn5

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@nearlylegal Or not for Mr Kimball, anyway.

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@nearlylegal I wonder how he’d have liked those woke medieval monks providing food and lodgings to the poor, the stranger and other undesirables (not to mention Jesus actually dining with them)?

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@nearlylegal So many historical and conceptual problems! As a Christian and as a thinking person (or something like that) I find every aspect of that tweet ridiculous anyway, but I just couldn’t let the total hypocrisy pass…

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@nearlylegal Could the lack of vicars be something to do with all the people who ‘aren’t particularly religious’ not bothering to support them (or anything they might actually stand for) for 51 weeks of the year and then complaining when there’s no one to take the Carol service…?